CONNECTING THE STREETS WITH THE SEDER

"For the first time, we paused in the midst of the Telling itself, to connect the streets with the Seder. For the first time, we noticed the passage that says, `In every generation, one rises up to become an oppressor', the passage that says, `In every generation, every human being is obligated to say, we ourselves, not our forebears only, go forth from slavery to freedom.

In every generation. Including our own. Always before, we had chanted these passages and gone right on. Tonight we paused. Who and what is our oppressor? How and when shall we go forth to freedom?"

Godwrestling Round 2. Ancient Wisdom, Future Paths. Jewish Lights Publishing: Woodstock, Vermont. © 1996 by Arthur Waskow.

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